Players’ status for the Ryder Cup is also in doubt due to the affiliation. International captain Trevor Immelman has now seen four possible members of his team – countrymen Louis Oosthuizen, Branden Grace and Schwartzel as well as Australia’s Matt Jones – declared ineligible.
Monahan said players who participate in the LIV Golf Series won’t be eligible for the Presidents Cup later this year at Quail Hollow in Charlotte. The fallout will severely impact the Presidents Cup and could have an effect on the Ryder Cup. “I’m planning to play in Munich.” Presidents Cup/Ryder Cup “I haven’t heard anything,’’ said Kaymer, the 2014 U.S. But he has not been given any official word. Germany’s Martin Kaymer, for example, said he expects to play in his home country’s BMW International Open in two weeks. Players who have DP World Tour status are unsure at this point if they will be able to play in upcoming tournaments. While the PGA Tour has been public about its threat of suspending players, the DP World Tour has remained quiet. The former European Tour and the PGA Tour formed a “strategic alliance” at the end of 2020 but so far, they’ve not been aligned as it relates to LIV Golf. “I can’t comment on anything they have said.’’ “I’ve definitely talked to them but you’re going to have to ask somebody from the Masters,’’ Johnson said. Would the Masters go down the road of not inviting past champions who are involved in LIV Golf? That list includes Johnson, Garcia, Phil Mickelson, Charl Schwartzel and Patrick Reed – who was announced as the latest to join on Saturday. The Masters is an invitational that has changed its qualifying criteria many times over the years but has always invited its past champions to compete – except for an awkward time in the early 2000s when chairman Hootie Johnson sent “a letter’’ to aging past champions suggesting they no long compete. Then there is the Masters and the PGA Championship. The question is if either organization will change its criteria for those competing in the LIV series to make it more difficult to qualify. The R&A has not commented but it is expected that next month’s British Open will operate in the same manner.
Monahan wrote that the players “did not receive the necessary event and media rights releases’’ and that participating is “in violation of our Tournament Regulations.’’ Monahan also said that the decision will include all tours sanctioned by the PGA Tour, as well as the Presidents Cup. That means we should not expect to see all the best players in any events other than the major championships. He noted that those who join in the future would be subject to the same penalties, which would include Bryson DeChambeau, Patrick Reed and Pat Perez, who signed on in the past week. He said that all 17 PGA Tour members in the LIV Golf field were suspended and no longer eligible for PGA Tour tournament play. Greg Norman, the commissioner of the LIV Golf Series and CEO of LIV Golf Investments, has consistently described his efforts as “additive,’’ meaning he saw a way – and still does – for PGA Tour players to compete in both arenas.īut PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan made it clear Thursday in his memo to players that there would be no common ground. The idea, going back years, in establishing an alternative to the PGA Tour and the DP World Tour was to attempt to bring the best players in the world together more frequently.